// Our kitchen is now home to an old wooden kitchen sofa. Breakfast there is cozy, and a coffee and some light reading in the afternoon sun is a bliss! I even enjoyed a power nap there today, after an exhausting trek through the woods. Ellie concurred with that and slept on my belly. Life my friends, life. Enjoy what truly matters, For gods sake, read this. Spot on. Thanks Rosie!

// Good morning my dear readers! I’ve had an intense start to this week (which is already over soon?!). Monday and Tuesday was spent almost entirely by the computer, with loads of coffee and way too many cookies while I worked with finished photos from last weekends work. I had a very exciting meeting yesterday, with a local chef and food creator/writer that went very well. I look forward to this new collaboration and hopefully it will lead to some nice work for us! I feel extremely tired today and my body feels heavy. I’ll spend this morning in bed with two new magazine and just leisurely browsing the web on my iPad. I will try to get out a bit too. I need to spend some time out in nature, get some fresh air and some light.

// And so February came. The month where we in Sweden eat (way too many) Swedish pastries called “semlor” (“semla in singularis). Most of us started having them in the middle of January, and a new thing this year is a semmelwrap. I haven’t tried it yet though. Easier to eat it seems, but the classical one is such beautiful pastry. Andreas sister Sara is excellent at baking, and also a very lovely, happy and creative person. I asked her if she wanted to bake some semlor and photograph them together with me. How lucky I am, that she said yes. We had a lot of fun, they were as tasty as they look and we are very happy with the images. Oh and the light in my kitchen. And the blue wall? I am in love.

Having coffee and framing my Instagram photos I ordered through Printasquare.com

// Printing ones photographs. Letting them leave the computer, materialise and take on a physical form. That is what photos are for, and it’s a shame how seldom we actually print our pictures. You enter our new home on the ground floor, and then a staircase takes you to the apartment on the second floor. In that staircase, we have a huge, white and empty wall. We plan on filling that wall with photographs. Mostly ours but other peoples photos too. Simply images we like!
I recently found a few square-shaped frames at home, and immediately decided to order some photos for them. I chose to try out Printasquare. I heard about them a while back, through Elin, and it seemed a nice way to print photographs from your Instagram. You simply log in with your Instagram account, get access to your own feed and then you can choose amongst your photos. The pictures come in three different sizes, mine are 13×13. They also have posters, magnets and all sorts of fun things you can order! It was indeed a very nice, simply and easy way to order my images and I am very content. It was also definitely affordable, I got 9 images for a very small sum (shipping included), especially considering that both paper and ink for printing costs a bit.

How about the quality then? Even though our phones are constantly improving, photos taken with them aren’t the best. Considering this, I am very pleased with how they turned out. The colors and contrasts are both very good, and they look similar to how I view them on my phone. Besides, 13×13 is not that big, and the images will hang together so one will not look at each image individually, and probably from a distance too. A very important aspect to think about when hanging photos – how they will be viewed.

I will post photos of our photo wall as soon as we’ve hanged some more pictures there.

// “No sleep, only coffee”, that’s the slogan for a swedish coffee brand named Lemmelkaffe. The worlds first dark roasted coffee made for boiling in a pot, from Northern Sweden and Gällivare, my birthplace. Am I a bit proud and “patriotic” about it? Yes of course. It’s also amazingly sound coffee too, and they advocate for an outdoor life. Can’t get any better than that. We visited Andreas’ dad yesterday, had dinner and wine/beer, enjoyed a nice and slow evening. We spent the night there, in sleeping bags in a trailer on their yard. Cozy indeed! Today we visited flea markets & second hand stores, and bought some more coffee. It’s a grey and rainy saturday, but when you have a fresh batch of coffee in your kettle, magazines filled with autumn inspiration and a new, handmade whistle made out of some antler, which is just beautiful… Well the fact that it’s grey outside just doesn’t bother you too much.

// A few days into October, a month I’m welcoming warmly. The best autumn month. It was a while ago that me and Andreas happened upon a beautiful, small lake in the woods, and today when the air was crisp, the autumn colors strong and the rain was in the air, we decided to go there with his mum. We made food and coffee over the fire, enjoyed the silence and nature. Suddenly a fog rolled in, white, thick and heavy. It covered the lake until we could no longer see it, even though we stood with out feet at the beach. Silhouettes and imagined movements made us talk of the water sprite, Kelpie, forest nymph and fairies.

We lit a fire in the fireplace once we were back home again, made a musty stew with meat from elk, our own potatoes and root vegetables. We drank red wine and beer while celebrating that this first sunday in October was absolutely magical.

// A calm morning with a nice breakfast was followed by a lovely walk through a sunny Stockholm. I visited my colleagues at the image agency Scandinav, grabbed a coffee and chatted with them for a bit. It’s very nice to actually keep in touch and meet with the people who work there, and important too. I enjoyed sushi for lunch, out in the sun and then I bought a new camera bag from Think Tank – a huge “thank you” to Gunnar Olssons Foto for the help and good service! I hades to the office of Tui Nordic / Fritidsresor Group after that, where I attended a pleasant, informative meeting.

// Can you do anything but love sunny days where everything just runs smoothly and is generally nice? I don’t think so. The fact that it’s friday and that we had homemade, grilled pizza for dinner only adds up to everything that’s awesome today.

// It started to rain yesterday, and the damp and raw cold seeps in over the floors, making our feet go cold – it’s time to bring out socks and knitted sweaters. Andreas’ mother baked bread yesterday, and the house filled up with the wonderful smell whilst we listened to the rain and welcomed autumn with a fire and nice coffee brewed in my Chemex. We ate fresh bread, straight from the oven and just enjoyed a cozy sunday evening.

// I made jam out of lingonberry for the first time today, while listening to the sweet music of Sofia Jannok. I think we’re making batter pudding to enjoy together with the jam tonight. I really enjoy myself here. Can you tell? It just started to rain again. They’ve even issued a warning about it. Said it’ll rain up to 50mm. Great if you ask me, the land and forests need it. We can hardly find any berries or mushroom, and what we do find is way too dry.

// I’ll write in swedish for a while now. See how it feels. If I actually show myself in between the lines. Haven’t always felt that’s the case when I write in english. I’ll always post an english translation though (maybe shorter version), do not fret <3

// I’ve spent the last couple of days with a mix of editing interior photos from a home we can’t seem to sell, cleaning and packing up for our move as well as play Skyrim. The sun’s out today and I can finally enjoy my holy morning coffee out on the balcony, barefoot. I like it out there and it’s a space I’ll miss but I also know I’ll have a wonderful patio in our new home, that I’ll probably love even more. It’s been a bleak and cold couple of days now, I even made an autumny chicken soup for dinner yesterday.

That changes today. The sun is shining, making me warm and I feel my energies return. It’s time for another mini-vacation (I was in Borås at my mums place last week). My second cousin Selma arrives here today, I’m soon off to meet up with her in town. She’ll spend the night here and tomorrow I follow her back home to Halmstad where I’ll be for a few days. I can’t wait! I always get so relaxed and inspired there. Time for a banana smoothie and some lemon water before it’s time to go. Have a nice wednesday everyone.

As always, I need my daily dose of coffee – however I have a hard time enjoying hot beverages with this summer heat going on. Thus, I’ve started to make iced coffee and I’m hooked! Which, if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably noticed already. Best part is that it’s super easy to make: